Sentence examples for instead of a future from inspiring English sources

Instead of a future I have only a past.

"They wanted to raise a future 'Jeopardy!' contestant instead of a future 'Jeopardy!' clue," he writes.

He seemed sanguine about that, though; he told me that if Schwarzenegger had used either deficit spending or a tax increase to fund his after-school programs — to make them a current reality, instead of a future hope — it would have hurt him in his campaign for governor.

In other words, the Scotch-makers fool the grain into thinking it's going to grow into a plant instead of a future of pulverization and lots of procedures with scalding hot water.

The movie they outline on paper is pretty drastically different from one that eventually hit theaters Rufus is a "28-year-old sophomore" instead of a future man, they travel through time in a van instead of a phone booth, and, shockingly, the fateful Circle-K was originally a 7-11.

Instead of a future blood sport in which drivers rack up points for killing innocent bystanders (way more subversive), the Resident Evil director set the movie in a futuristic maximum-security prison in which the world watches prisoners (on TV) commit all kinds of creative vehicular manslaughter.

Girls of nine, ten and eleven are among those whose childhoods are stolen, and destined instead to a future of poverty and exploitation.

Otherwise, she says, she'd be forced to stay home instead of building a future for her kids and herself.

Instead of unity of purpose, instead of a shared future, the acknowledgment of traditional lands points Canadians to a fractured origin.

Redefine productivity to mean producing the best possible outcome for the workforce and the society and environment around them, and instead of a bleak future of working longer, harder and later in life, real productivity might come to mean less really is is more.

Instead, their conception of a future is an abstracted reality which centers on death as a vehicle to an alternate incarnation?